Telecenters — to be rolled out in rural areas of Pakistan under the
supervision of Universal Service Fund – will host variety of services
for the community, including biometric verification of SIM cards,
Computerized National Identity Cards (CNIC), birth/death registration
and computer training for the youth of the nation.
This was decided during a meeting held in Islamabad. The meeting was
chaired by Ms. Anusha Rehman, while other officials who attended the
meeting include Mr. Akhlaq Tarrar, Secretary IT, Senior Officials from
USF, and a team of senior officials from NADRA led by Mr. Tariq Malik
Chairman, NADRA to further discuss the implementation of the Telecenter
Project.
During the meeting it was decided that Telecenters, so established,
would offer several e-services such as e-health, e-learning, e-commerce,
e-agriculture etc. to facilitate people of un-served, underserved and
far flung areas.
It is likely that telecenters will create local employment and
entrepreneurship opportunities and extend broadband to provide distance
education and ICT literacy.
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